OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 13 shown for “Tawaraya Sōri” — 41 records examined, 0 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-08-29 12:29 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Morning Glories, by Tawaraya Sōri

Morning Glories

Tawaraya Sōri · 18th century

Public domainThe Met
Pine tree and autumn vine, by Tawaraya Sori I

Pine tree and autumn vine

Tawaraya Sori I · late 18th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Two men returning from cherry blossom viewing, by Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century)

Two men returning from cherry blossom viewing

Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century) · late 18th-early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A woman and a wood gatherer under a cherry tree, by Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century)

A woman and a wood gatherer under a cherry tree

Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century) · late 18th-early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
An old woman sitting on two overturned grave-posts, by Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century)

An old woman sitting on two overturned grave-posts

Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century) · 1615-1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
A courtesan and her attendant under a cherry tree, by Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century)

A courtesan and her attendant under a cherry tree

Tawaraya Sori III (fl. ca. late 18th-early 19th century) · late 18th-early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uvigerina sori Haque, 1960

Uvigerina sori Haque, 1960

Artist not stated in the record

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Viola moncaunica Pau

Viola moncaunica Pau

Artist not stated in the record · 6 Jul 1905 to 9 Jul 1905

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Gleichenella pectinata (Willd.) Ching

Gleichenella pectinata (Willd.) Ching

Artist not stated in the record · 23 Jun 1923

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Davallia griffithiana Hook.

Davallia griffithiana Hook.

Artist not stated in the record · 16 Aug 1930

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Tectaria crenata Cav.

Tectaria crenata Cav.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 6/1/55

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Polypodium lingua (Thunb.) Sw.

Polypodium lingua (Thunb.) Sw.

Artist not stated in the record · 15 May 1969

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Arachniodes sp.

Arachniodes sp.

Artist not stated in the record · Transcribed d/m/y: 1/11/31

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 1 matched · 1 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.1 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 66 matched · 40 examined · 0 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-08-29 12:29 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.